User:Pierre-Yves Bard

Pierre-Yves BARD is a senior research scientist at the LGIT Grenoble (an Earth Science laboratory) and at LCPC (a civil engineering lab). After a basic education in Science at the Polytechnic School in Paris, he got a Civil Engineering diploma from the Bridges and Roads School in Paris, and a PhD in Geophysics at the Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble. Since then, he has been working mainly as a researcher in engineering seismology, trying to bridge the gap between seismologists and earthquake engineers. His research is related with estimation of strong ground motion, with a special emphasis on any kind of site effects related with near-surface heterogeneities, including those related with soil-structure interaction. A member of the editorial board of several geotechnical and earthquake engineering journals, he is actively involved in the French Association of Earthquake Engineering, and served as an expert for various projects and review panels. His most recent achievements are the SESAME and NERIES-JRA4 European projects, dedicated to the use of ambient vibrations for site characterization, and the propositions for a new seismic zonation in France with new spectra. He supervised about 30 PhD students, tought in post-graduate courses at several French Universities (Grenoble, Strasbourg, Paris) and international training courses (GFZ Potsdam / Unesco); he coauthored around 75 papers in peer reviewed international journals, and twice more in Conference Proceedings.